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Ku Klux Klan dreams of rising again 150 years after founding

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights in the 1960s. Membership dwindled and many assumed the group was dead. Yet today, the KKK is still alive and ...



Obama quickly signs Puerto Rico financial rescue bill

TheRepublic.com 

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed a rescue package for financially strapped Puerto Rico, which is facing more than $70 billion in debt and a major payment due Friday. Obama signed the bill Thursday, hours after it won final passage in the Senate on Wednesday night. Obama says the bill isn’t perfect but is

In New Mexico, New Deal legacy gets a second look

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Amid the misery of the Great Depression, Rupert Lopez gratefully worked for $1 a day for the Civilian Conservation Corps, making adobe-block walls for a new regional National Park Service administration building in ...

Obama vows to move quickly to sign Puerto Rico bill

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Puerto Rico faces a major debt payment, President Barack Obama is vowing to move quickly to sign a last-minute rescue package for the financially-strapped U.S. territory and its 3.5 million Americans. Signs are already pointing to a humanitarian crisis as thousands have fled the island and businesses there have closed, schools have struggled with limited electricity and hospitals have asked for cash payment in advance for some medication. Utah Rep. Rob Bishop, the Republican... Читать дальше...

New York Comic Con Fans Latest Victims Of Scalpers: 4 Ways To Stop ‘Ticket Bots’

International Business Times 

New York Comic Con fans became the latest victims of ticket scalpers Wednesday. Thousands had preregistered with Comic Con’s fan verification program, designed to box scalpers out of the October event. But when noon struck, many cosplay fans found themselves waiting in the online queue for over an hour as resale tickets surfaced on StubHub for twice the face value. Like a predictable comic book villain, “ticket bots,” animated software designed to jump to the front of online queues and buy hundreds of tickets, had struck again.





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